“I will say this, though—it’s a very odd thing not to be conscious. To be—to all intents and purposes—dead… — Alastair Reynolds
“I will say this, though—it’s a very odd thing not to be conscious. To be—to all intents and purposes—dead. Neither gathering nor generating information, as cold and changeless as eternity. How do you humans live with the thought of that hanging over every moment of your pitifully short existences?”
“We don’t,” Kanu said. “We just get on with it.”
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